I'm from the old school, so I was wearing button-up polo shirts way back, with the sweater to match. - Pimp C

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I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me. -J. Cole

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I grew up performing in glee club at my school; I was the ostrich in 'Peter Pan,' and then I was super-involved in church choir and worship leading at my church. So I always loved music and was involved with it, but never really thought it was what I wanted to do until I started writing. - Kelsea Ballerini

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A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. In other words, this man who was born a slave and never went to school educated himself to the point where his words now have to be explained to today's expensively under-educated generation. ― Thomas Sowell

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Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?

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Everyone's on the cliff edge of normal. Everyone finds life an utter nightmare sometimes, and there's no 'normal' way of dealing with it... There is no normal, Evelyn. ― Holly Bourne

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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds. -J. Cole

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I have no friends here apart from the dudes at my record label, and I didn't go to school with no one. Nobody knows me - I'm incognito. It's all new, all fun. -MF Doom

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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it. -J. Cole

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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.

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